While most hotels cling to the beautiful moments spent on vacation, here are 10 hotels, in which delight and despair go hand in hand.
1. Chelsea Hotel, New York
Sid Vicious – Sex Pistols bass player stabbed to death his girlfriend Nancy 12th 10. 1978. in room number 100 Chelsea Hotel in New York. Less than a year later, Sid has also died of a heroin overdose.
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas spent the last moments in this hotel . After drinking 18 glasses of whiskey in a row he was taken to hospital where he died.
2. Hôtel d’Alsace, Paris
Oscar Wilde died in room no. 16 in the Street of Arts (rue des Beaux Arts) Looking at the disgusting wallpaper on the wall, allegedly uttered: “One of us must go.”
Rumor has it that have left a sizable bill and that he died the way he has lived. Wilde was 46 years old when he died of cerebral meningitis, after an operation on his ear.
Today, the hotel called L’Hôtel, and it’s much more exclusive than during Wilde’s time.
3. Landmark Hotel, Los Angeles
Janis Joplin with only 27 years old died of a heroin overdose, 4 . October 1970. Room No. 100 Lendmark hotel in Hollywood, which now is called Highland Gardens Hotel. Just two weeks after Jimmy Hendrix.
4. Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles
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Shortly after midnight, 5 June 1968. Robert F. Kennedy was killed at this hotel in Wilshire Boulevard 3400 while entering the conference room to the kitchen. Killer was a Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Ambassador was a real luxury Hollywood hotel the 30′s and 40′s where was maintained the Academy Awards.
Hotel was closed 1989th but it was used for movies : “Pretty Woman”, “Forest Gump”, “Tales from LA” and “Apollo 13″.
5. Shelton Hotel, Boston
Writer, Eugene O’Neill, author of “The Long Journey Into Night” and “Desire under the Elms”, was 65 years old when on 27.11. 1953. died in apartment 401, unhappy and broke. His last words were: “I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room ”
Shelton Hotel is now called the Shelton Hall and the residence of students at Boston University.
6. Lorraine Motel, Memphis
Lorraine Motel is now the National Museum of Civil Rights .
In the room 306 on April fourth.1968 Th Martin Luther King was killed. Four years earlier Luter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and 1977th won a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom.
7. Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Sydney
Michael Hutchins, lead singer of Australian band INXS died here. He had used his black leather belt to tie a knot on the automatic door closure at the top of the door, and had strained his head forward into the loop so hard that the buckle had broken on 22 November 1997. year. The body of 37-year-old singer was found by a cleaner the next morning. Group INXS fame in the ’80s and ’90s hits like Need You Tonight, Never Tear Us Apart and Suicide Blonde and Hutchins had fun with many beauties, including Kylie Minogue, Helena Christensen and Paul Yates, former wife of Bob Geldof.
8. Hôtel Ritz, Paris (France)
Fashion designer Coco Chanel died in the 88th year at the Ritz in Paris, 10 of January 1971st . She lived in this hotel for 30 years. She had no children, nor she was married. Fashion company founded by her is one of the largest in the world. Another style icon, Princess Diana, just before death was staying at this hotel. From there he went to the last ride, 08/31/1997.
